CW just finished their ‘The Vampire Diaries’ press tour, and EW’s Michael Ausiello was there to report on the whole thing!!
Series creator/writer Kevin Williamson (Scream, Dawson’s Creek) wanted everyone to know that this is NOT a ‘Twilight’/'True Blood’ rip-off, and the actors seems to agree.
9:24 am: Kevin Williamson insists Diaries is “not just a high school show. It’s a small town show. Once you get past the vampire premise, we get to telling the story about this town.”
9:25 am: All three actors on the panel claim to have read the books on which the show is based. I believe maybe one of them.
9:26 am: Paul Wesley (Diaries‘ answer to Robert Pattinson) went out of his way not to watch Twilight. “If there are similarities to Robert’s character in Twilight, so be it,” he says.
9:30 am: Williamson initially feared that Diaries would be perceived as a Twilight/True Blood rip-off. “The pilot is tough because there are a lot of similarities to Twilight,” he concedes. “There was no way around it. But we’re switching things around as we get [deeper] into it. We’re not a movie with a beginning, middle and end. We’re a TV series that evolves.”
You can read the rest over at EW.com!!
‘The Vampire Diaries’ is set to premiere in Sept on the CW
